Tony Payne

Professorial Fellow

Tony is Professorial Fellow in SPERI. He has worked at the University of Sheffield since 1985 and became Professor of Politics in 1993. He has been Head of the Department of Politics (1992-5 and 1998-2001), Pro-Vice-Chancellor for the Social Sciences (2008-12) and was the founding Co-Director of SPERI with Colin Hay (2012-17). He was also the founding Managing Editor of the journal New Political Economy.

Research Interests

Tony’s research interests sit at the political end of political economy and have focused at different times on the fields of development, governance, regionalism and globalisation, and their intersection. He is currently working on the global governance of the global political economy post-crisis, with particular reference to the capacity of the G20 to facilitate a process of ‘re-globalisation’ that can bring the process of globalisation under greater control.

Key Publications

The Long Battle for Global Governance, with Stephen Buzdugan (2016), London & New York NY: Routledge.